By some chance I acquired a pair of specialized '3d' glasses to be used in conjunction with a poster, such that when viewing the poster (which was a map of australia) the contours popped in and out of ...

I have a design for a setup to look at the light reflecting off the back of the human retina. I would like to remove any specular reflection that occurs at the cornea. At the moment the idea is to use ...

To increase bandwidth, for EM free space communication, could you modulate the polarization, so that, e.g., for a one-meter wavelength radio wave, the polarization could be modulated between vertical ...

How does one show that thickness and wavelength determine the full transmission between two different dielectric media if the boundary condition equations between two dielectric media are independent ...

Is there a probable device that can convert white light to laser-like light without the need of an electrical stage in-between?
I'm thinking of something along this level. A very precise filter and ...

While doing some calculation in Statistical Mechanics of blackbody radiation from Huang's Statistical mechanics, I came across with the factor 2 which it says comes from two possible polarizations. ...

What polarizes the light from a rainbow. I already did some search and couldn't get a clear answer. All I could find was the light is polarized on the direction light is entering. What happens to the ...

Water in an electric field become polarized easily, since the natural dipoles twist and turn to align with the field.
In non-polar insulating materials, a redistribution of charge can happen in the ...

In an isolated conductor the extra positive or negative charges will be distributed on the surface uniformly. Hence there will be no charge inside the conductor, hence no field. But what accounts for ...

I understand how one associates the spin of a quantum particle, e.g. of a photon, with intrinsic angular momentum. And in electromagnetism I have always understood the polarization of an EM wave as ...

I have stumped myself with a thought experiment of my own devising.
Suppose I take a beam of wholly depolarised, but otherwise plane wave light. Its von Neumann entropy per photon is $\log(2)$ nats ...

From the Devonshire theory of ferroelectrics we can obtain Polarization vs. Electric Field curve at a given temperature.
From the graph it can be seen that a portion of the curve has negative slope ...

I have heard about plane polarized light: light wave which has vibration in one plane. My curiosity forces me to ask a doubt, is there any way to produce polarized light wave which has vibrations in ...

When learning angular momentum in quantum mechanics, a spin 1 particle have 3 states. Then I saw from sakurai's modern quantum mechanics that photon's two polarization are just like spins, but with ...

What is more correct and what is the difference?
Polarised waves are waves with vibrations in one direction perpendicular to energy propagation
"vibrations in one plane"
"vibrations in one direction ...

I was reading that when horizontally polarized light hits a vertical Polaroid all the light is blocked out. But when the Polaroid is off the vertical, some but not all photons "decide" to jump into ...

I am trying to design an experiment where I can calculate the distance at which polarization will not have a measurable effect on a neutral object, from a sphere charged by a Van Der Graaf generator. ...

How does temperature affect the specific optical rotation of sugar solution at constant concentration and why?
If, for example, the temperature is increased, will the optical rotation for a given path ...

Suppose you have some sort of a "black box" system - you know nothing of its inner workings. The system has two outputs, let's call them A and B, and it occasionally emits photons - one photon from ...

I want to check if I correctly understand polarization.
Considering a single photon travelling in vacuum, it can only be polarized linearly under the same direction at any time, right?
When we talk ...

I thought that modern 3d glasses work by having one lens filter horizontally polarized light, and the other filter vertically polarized light.
However, I found this pair of 3d glasses at my parents' ...

Well, we know that circularly/elliptically polarized light is made up from orthogonal components. So is it possible then to create circularly/elliptically polarized light by combining horizontally and ...

There is a few questions that need to be answered in detail but in an easy way...
What does it mean to describe the 'plane of polarisation' of electromagnetic waves?
Why will some antenna have rods ...

What's the scattering matrix for a PBS (polarization beam splitter)?
Is it just unitary?
If one polarization never couples into another polarization (then there's a lot of zeroes in that 4x4 matrix) - ...